Tom Cruise is in Japan promoting DIGGER, which opened in Japan on October 9 after a U.S. opening on October 2. The film has drawn a divided reception and Cruise has been making press appearances in Tokyo alongside director Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
Tom Cruise's current work is DIGGER, a film directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu in which Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an oil company CEO whose profit-first decisions trigger a global crisis. The campaign has sold Cruise against his usual action-hero image: a white-haired, pot-bellied CEO who caused the disaster rather than the hero who averts it. A June 24 trailer titled "Tom Cruise's 45-Year Journey" cut clips from Top Gun, Jerry Maguire, A Few Good Men, the Mission: Impossible series and The Last Samurai into footage from DIGGER, and Cruise said at CinemaCon that it took him 40 years to be able to play the role. A July 14 trailer and poster confirmed the October 9 Japanese release; a later trailer in September added the tagline "With great power comes great evasion of responsibility" and named Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Huller and Michael Stuhlbarg as co-stars.
Promotion for the Japanese opening ran from the start of October. Ken Watanabe released a comment praising the film ahead of the October 9 opening, and Cruise and Iñárritu toured the MAPPA Expo 15th Anniversary exhibition in Tokyo, viewing the Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man areas and meeting an animator who gave them an illustration of Digger Rockwell. Sandra Huller and Riz Ahmed described in a remote interview how the ensemble built its characters together, with Huller playing Digger's younger sister Emma and Ahmed the scientist Ganesh. During the Japan promotional tour, Cruise also recorded a talk with YOASOBI's Ayase and ikura for the unit's YouTube channel, released October 16.
The film has drawn a split response, and Iñárritu has addressed it directly, saying the story's structure lets audiences arrive at the truth gradually and that a second viewing reaches deeper layers. Outside DIGGER, Cruise is named among the performers at the World Cup closing ceremony before the final on July 19 at MetLife Stadium, alongside Robbie Williams, Laura Pausini, Nicole Scherzinger and Jennifer Hudson.
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu came to Japan for the release of DIGGER and gave an interview about the film's divided reception. He said the story's structure lets audiences arrive at the truth gradually, and that a second viewing reaches deeper layers of the work. The film stars Tom Cruise as Digger Rockwell, an oil company CEO whose greed triggers a global crisis.
A talk video between YOASOBI and Tom Cruise will be released on YOASOBI's official YouTube channel on Friday, October 16 at 20:00. The talk was held during the Japan promotional tour for Tom Cruise's film DIGGER, which has been in Japanese release since October 9. Ayase, ikura, and Cruise discussed their approaches to making things.
Sandra Huller and Riz Ahmed, key cast members of Tom Cruise's film DIGGER, described in a remote interview how the whole ensemble built its characters together. Huller plays Digger's younger sister Emma and Ahmed the scientist Ganesh. Huller said she worked from the outside in, using costume and wig, while Ahmed said the cast went straight into rehearsal after receiving the script.
Tom Cruise and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu visited the MAPPA Expo 15th Anniversary exhibition in Tokyo, according to photos the event posted Friday. Character designer Tadashi Hiramatsu joined them for a roundtable, where Inarritu said his son is a MAPPA fan and Cruise asked about hand-drawn animation. The two came to Japan for the Friday opening of Digger, one week after its U.S., Canada, and U.K. release.
Tom Cruise and director Alejandro G. Iñárritu visited MAPPA EXPO 15th Anniversary at YURAKUCHO MUSEUM in Tokyo while promoting their film DIGGER. They toured the Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man areas, viewed The Rumbling exhibit from Attack on Titan The Final Season, and held a roundtable with animator Yoshihisa Hiramatsu, who gave them a new illustration of Cruise's character Digger Rockwell.
Ken Watanabe has released a comment on DIGGER, the Tom Cruise film directed by Alejandro G. Inarritu that opens in Japan on October 9. Watanabe, who saw it early, wrote that he traded blows with the film for 129 minutes with no guard up and was completely knocked out. The film opened in the U.S. on October 2, and Cruise and Inarritu are due in Japan from October 5 to 7.
A new trailer and visual for DIGGER, the Tom Cruise film directed by Alejandro G. Inarritu, arrived ahead of its October 9 opening in Japan. Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an oil drilling CEO whose profit-first decisions trigger a crisis threatening Earth's destruction. The trailer carries the tagline "With great power comes great evasion of responsibility." Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Huller and Michael Stuhlbarg co-star.
Streamer IShowSpeed will perform his unofficial World Cup anthem "World Cup (Champions)" at the closing ceremony before the final on July 19 at MetLife Stadium. He initially thought the FIFA call was a prank. The ceremony also features Robbie Williams, Laura Pausini, Nicole Scherzinger, Tom Cruise, and Jennifer Hudson. The song was included in the official FIFA World Cup 2026 album.
The new trailer and poster for 'DIGGER', Tom Cruise and Alejandro G. Iñárritu's film, reveal Cruise plays a greedy oil CEO named Digger Rockwell whose actions cause Earth's destruction. The Japanese release date is October 9. Cruise's appearance is drastically different: white-haired, pot-bellied, making vulgar jokes. He also opened a TikTok account.
Tom Cruise and director Alejandro G. Iñárritu released a trailer for the film 'DIGGER' on June 24, 2026. The trailer, titled 'Tom Cruise's 45-Year Journey,' is a montage of clips from Cruise's past films including 'Top Gun,' 'Jerry Maguire,' 'A Few Good Men,' the 'Mission: Impossible' series, and 'The Last Samurai,' leading into footage from 'DIGGER.' The film is described as an 'extraordinary disaster comedy' about a man named Digger Rockwell who holds the fate of the world after causing a disaster. Cruise said at CinemaCon that it took him 40 years to be able to play this role. Three teaser posters were also released, showing Digger with a gun from various angles. The film is scheduled for a 2026 release in Japan and an October 2, 2026 release in the United States. A new trailer is set for July 14.